Sacred Spaces app for iPhone and iPad

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Education
Developer: Smithsonian Institution

Free

Current version: 1.1, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 17 Sep 2017
App size: 230.98 Mb

Explore how Tibetan Buddhists encounter and engage with art objects in sacred spaces. Released with the opening of Encountering the Buddha: Art and Practice across Asia at the Freer|Sackler, this app centers on the Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room from the Alice S. Kandell Collection. In the three-year exhibition, the app complements and enhances the immersive viewing experience of the shrine room. At home, the app offers virtual access to the shrine room and acts as a tool for understanding Tibetan Buddhism, its sacred spaces, and the activities and objects therein.